Is Oracle Quietly Killing OpenOffice?

Many are wondering what is going to happen to the many Sun projects, with the Java stream being probably the only thing not in some cloud of possible excision from living efforts.

Like many OpenOffice.org adopters, Forrester’s enterprise clients are starting to wonder what’s going on with the once-promising open source alternative to Microsoft Office. As one chief technology strategist posited last week: “Oracle has made several strong public pronouncements that their support for OpenOffice.org will continue abated. This, however, begs the question of the increasing functional and technical gap between standard programs like word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations and the new, all-encompassing view of the desktop being adopted by Microsoft in Office 2010. That being so, is there really any future for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org within the enterprise, except as an ever-shrinking niche to support basic, ultra low-cost office document capability on home-use platforms?”